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Wouldn’t it be awesome to be one of those guitarists who just shows up and jams?

No sheet music, no chord charts, no endless YouTube tutorials…

How do they magically seem to know and play every song—even songs they never heard before?

Well, if you think it’s because they spend 25 hours a day, fingers-to-the-fretboard, memorizing every song under the sun, you may be surprised!

While they may practice a good deal, their calloused fingers are often matched by well-honed ears.

Read on to discover why your ears are the key to true freedom on the fretboard and the essential areas to study if you want that seemingly-magical ability to play any song on guitar.

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It’s so frustrating. As a musician, you desperately want to make progress on your instrument. You put in hours in the practice room, working your fingers (or lips) until they’re raw.

And by the end of practice, you feel like you’ve made progress.

But then something happens…

You come to the practice room the next day, and it’s as if you didn’t practice at all. As if your brain has forgotten everything you learned.

It drives you nuts. Makes you want to quit.

We’ve got some really good news. The struggle is real. Every musician encounters it. Every musician finds themselves losing the progress they made in the practice room. The problem isn’t you…

In this post, we’re going to propose a better, different way to practice that will produce more measurable results and prevent you from losing so much progress.

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Ear Training will make you a better musician.

It is something that musicians tend to either:

Do, reluctantly,
Maybe because their music course or instrument exams require it.
or
Ignore completely.
Thinking it’s completely separate from instrument learning,
associated with music theory, or for expert musicians only.

But ear training is something which should be core to every musician’s development from the very beginning—and not just “because some teacher said so!”

All those soft intangible things which distinguish an average musician from a fantastic and inspiring one – they’re all in the ear!

In this article we share 10 powerful reasons to make ear training part of your music learning.

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You CAN write songs without music theory!

If you’ve wished to write your own incredible songs but felt held back because you don’t know music theory, fret no longer.

In this article we’ll show you how you can write your own songs even with zero theory knowledge.

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/5-reasons-every-guitarist-should-learn-intervals/
Have you wondered how some guitarists seem to just know what notes to play?

They can pick out a tune by ear, play along with a song they’ve only just heard and improvise killer solos without any need for sheet music, tab, or fretboard patterns.

How do they do it?

The answer is that they have a well-trained musical ear, and by doing simple ear training exercises on guitar you can hone your own ears in the same way.

Here are 5 reasons every guitarist should learn intervals

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College ear training classes in aren’t always perfect.

In this article Joseph DuBose shares his experience with a professor left him frustrated and bewildered.

However, personally experiencing a horrible approach to teaching ear training has helped him to discover some basic principles that have helped him to not only make up lost ground, but to continually develop his musical ear.

Read on to learn from Joseph’s experience and avoid ear training frustration.

Hopefully you’ve already heard parts one and two, or you were with us live. If not go back and listen. And if you’re all up to date enjoy part 3.

Oh, and you’ll hear us mention a special link we were putting in the Facebook comments for people attending live. As a podcast listener, you can find that link in the shownotes for this episode in your podcast player. Or visit musicalitynow.com and check out the shownotes there.

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Wish you could transcribe that crazy guitar lick?

Or spout out pages of music like a modern day Mozart?

Learn how to transcribe music and develop your mind’s ear through ear training and audiation.

Don’t know how? Musical U will get you started!

Click to discover the why and how of ear trainging!

What you’re about to hear in this episode is the recording of a Facebook live session we did this week. We explained a bit more in yesterday’s episode of the podcast. If you didn’t hear that one yet, we do recommend listening to that one first, and we’re talking all about ease and joy in music learning.

So without further ado, please enjoy the recording of the second live session from this week. It is informal. It is unscripted. We’re just hanging out and talking about this topic with some Musical U members, with Foundation students, with our email audience, and with you, the podcast listener. Enjoy.

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• Musicality Now – The Roots of Greatness, with Scott Devine

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Why sing in English?

From Mexico to Japan, the amount of international performing artists that are singing in English might surprise you.

Although time and regular practice can allow ESL singers to become proficient in a non-native language, learning how to sing without an accent can be incredibly challenging and even costly.

In this article we share some benefits of singing in English as well as some tips to make it much more accessible!